The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-12

A MACHINE has been invented that prints
the sides and ends of boxes at the same
time at the rate of 9, 800 per hour.
New YORK Italians are trying to secure
n site in Central Park, near the bust of
Mezzini, for statue of Garibaldi.
ALEXANDER b. COKE, JR., of New York,
is said to be the biggest man at Yale, his
weight being given as 341 pounds.
MRs. STEPHEN b. ELKINs recently pre-.
sentcd a library consisting of $iO0 worth of
books to the town of Davis, w. Va.
SECRETARY LAMONT gets the handsome
salary of $1,000, President Cleveland pay
ing him SO 800 out of his own pocket.
THE value of manufactured articles
IN this country surpasses the value Of
those made in Great Britain by more than
s7OO,OOO,OOO.
1T being tolerably certain that the world
is not to come to an end before the year
5000, New York may yet have Grant
monument.
In regard to the present situation in
Europe General Wolscley says: "A vast
and appalling war is q certainty in the
near future"
THE latest distinguished lady who thinks
OF becoming an actress is Ethel Chase, the
daughter of Ex-Governor Sprague, of
Rhode Island.
A NEBRASKA man who recently died at
the age of 102, was shipwrecked many
years ago and swan nine miles with wo-
man on his back
THERE have been just admitted to the
poor-house of Beaver County, Pa, n man
and his wife and five children, three of
whom were triplets.
A NEW pocket camera has been invented.
1t is enclosed in an ordinary silver watch
case, and is said to do very good work by
the dry-plate process.
CAPTAIN ROBERT w. ANDREWS, of Boston,
who is in his ninety-seventh year, wants
TO challenge any man of his age to a match
at walking or jumping.
JUNE 81 has been decided upon as the
date for national celebration OF the
Queens Jubilee day in England, and it
will be declared q holiday.
Mrs KATE CHASE is making arrange
ments for the publication of the biography
of her father, the late Chief Justice, which
She has undertaken to write.
PAoLA, KAN, has natural gas spouter
that blew plumber into the roof Of q
derrick, nearly killing him. He was test
ing the pressure and found out.
TENNEssEE's Senate has rejected q bill
appropriating Sl,SO0 for a monument to
George Peabody, through whose bepev.
olence the State was great gamer.
Born Carl Schurz and Ben Butler are
suffering from severe falls on the side.
walk, the former having slipped in New
York and the latter in Philadelphia.
EX-GOVERNOR CURTIN was recently called
upon by soldiers widow, for whom no
had secured pension and given half
dozen kisses in public for the assistance he
had rendered.
ARGENT wager between two Viennese
ELECTED the fact that for the completion of
0winter overcoat, 'less than 40, ,Up stitches"
are required, viz. 1863, which is o pretty
good guess after all
JOHN PENZEL, of jackson, No., purchase
coffins for himself and wife ten years ago,
which he keeps in the upper story of his
house. The old man frequently gets into
his to see how it Ats
MRS. CLEVELAND probably receives the
most letters of any woman in the United
States, and Mrs. Jenness Miller, the leader
OF the dress reform movement, is said TO
have the next largest post.
A FARMER Of Otter Tail County, who Wis.
tied the Minnesota Legislature recently,
made but one remark during his stay,
and that was this: "By gosh! I'm a
statesman myself alongside Of these fel.
lows"
RICHARD PBNNIsTAN, actor, has just been
admitted to the Forrest Home in Philadel-
phia. In 1873 Pennistan drew S5O0,0OO in
the Royal Havana Lottery, but his good
luck was his ruin, and for number OF
years he has been penniless.
SAM JONES says: "If wanted to get
good, square judgment on something ]
had done l had rather go to newspaper OF.
Ifice for it than any other court of justice.
know the justice Of journals, their integ-
lrity and the purity Of their motives"
NOSE GIBSON, negro, eighty seven
years old, walks to Washington, Ga, and
back daily, a distance Of eight miles, car
rying the mail for the family that owned
him before the war, thus earning board
and clothing for himself and his old wife.
MAUNA LoA, Hawaii's great volcano, ID
again vomiting fire upon the island and in
habitants. A river Of fire fourteen miles Ions
went tearing down the mountain to the seq
for number Of days, but the flow Of lava
at last accounts, was gradually ceasing.
SOME years ago the Solons Of the Ar
kansas Legislature met in due form and
passed solemn enactment to the effect
that the State should henceforth and for.
ever be pronounced Arkansaw.
THE Toronto Globe says Bowmanrills
merchant recently received an envelope
containing $50 and the following letter
~ owe this much to you. Better for me
20 pay 1t In this world than in the next"
MONSTER green turtles, some weighing
ss much as l,5O0 pounds each, frequent the
beach at Smithville, N. e., at the mouth ot
Cape Fear river, and all the way down To
Fort Caswell, four miles below the town.
People eat their eggs, but do not eat the
turtles.
BucKwHEAT cakes, to be fashionable,
should not be larger than trade dollar.
A REIGNING social sensation In Paris IL z
series OF negro balls. They are under the
patronage Of several ladies of noble blood
from Zanzibar and Ethiopia. The dark.
hued contingent Of Partisan society is .
numerous one and contains many families
Of rank and wealth.
AYEw Sundays since the pastor OF Q
church near Newburyport, stopped In tho
middle OF his sermon and announced that
~ several were asleep he would give them
achance for short nap. Ho sat down,
the sleepers were aroused, and the divine
proceeded with his discourse after recess
Of few minutes.